Installing Windows 7 on SSD in Optical bay caddy

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dovdevan05

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I have a dell vostro 3450 to which I inserted Samsung 840 SSD in addition to the HDD. I wanted to install Win 7 on the SSD but apparently you can't load the OS from a removable drive (I guess that's how win 7 sees the SSD). My bios recognizes the SSD and it's enabled as AHCI. I have done clean all to both drives and did a clean install of windows.

the obvious solution is to swtich places between the hdd and ssd but Dell have built this laptop in such a way that you have to take the whole damn thing apart in order to get to the hdd.

Does anyone have any other ideas?
 
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Are you sure you set the USB stick up correctly (has the stick been made bootable?) You can install win 7 to an SSD with a stick. If you can try using this to set up and put win 7 on the stick http://wudt.codeplex.com/
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Are you sure you set the USB stick up correctly (has the stick been made bootable?) You can install win 7 to an SSD with a stick. If you can try using this to set up and put win 7 on the stick http://wudt.codeplex.com/
 
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You mean the USB stick I used to install win on the SSD? It works. I used it a couple of times. I even used it to install win on the old HDD and the computer works. But I want to install the OS on the SSD
 
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